Nerdcore on the local tip, the Instagram Rapture and more music to your Digital Dish loving eyes and ears

Are those holiday songs still boring into your brain? Clean out the Yuletide earworms with the nerdcore stylings of Richie Branson. The San Antonio rapper/producer has worked with Adult Swim, Def Jam Recordings and Marvel Studios, with thousands following his Twitter handle @richiebranson for his latest odes to anime, video games and other geekery.

Branson’s rhymes cover the geek gamut, from “Star Wars” to the hit anime/manga “Attack on Titan.” And don’t worry about any downloader’s remorse. Branson tends to put his tunes online for your free enjoyment.

He’s also not afraid to dish out free controversy. Branson recently developed the free interactive game “Pill Bill, ” an absurdist commentary on the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, “by an indie game designer who has a serious dislike for rape and sexual assault.” “Pill Bill” soon will be available for iOS and Android.

Instagram spam purge hits celebrity follower counts

Instagram promised it would clean house of spam accounts, which likely would impact user follower counts. And boy has the so-called “Instagram Rapture” delivered a blow to celebrity accounts, to the tune of millions of followers lost.

Justin Bieber’s Instagram account alone shed more than 3.5 million followers in 24 hours, while Akon lost more than 2.4 million. Ariana Grande had 1.5 million less followers, and Kim Kardashian West lost around 1.3 million.

As Business Insider reported, the purge has some shouting hallelujah for nixing suspected bought followers, while others cried foul to Instagram’s official account to bring back their previous follower numbers.

But weep not for any inflated numbers or inflated egos. Instagram’s help center noted the purge “shouldn’t affect engagement from authentic accounts that like and comment on your posts.”

“Duck Hunt” for Wii U

Well, snickering hunting dogs, it’s the return of an NES classic. Nintendo is bringing its beloved shooter game “Duck Hunt” to the Wii U for Christmas. The game was made available Thursday through the Virtual Console service for $4.99.

“Duck Hunt” first flew into North American homes in 1985 with the domestic launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Back then, players shot down ducks and clay pigeons with a trusty NES Zapper light gun, lest they suffered the mocking laughter of the game’s hunting dog.

For the new release, Wii U players can use a Wii Remote in place of the memorable orange-and-gray gun.

Get PAC-MAN smartwatch fever

Finally, here’s a bit more old-school fun for your next- gen tech. BANDAI NAMCO Games America has released the PAC-MAN Watch Face for Android Wear smartwatches. You can download the great dot-muncher and his ghostly nemeses for $.99 via Google Play.

Think of it as just four more quarters for an arcade icon. The download features graphics straight out of the ’80s PAC-MAN coin-op game, as PAC-MAN races around the dial in retro style to chomp on ghosts, fruits and power pellets.